dialog AlternativesShells and other similar apps like dialog
dialog is described as 'Display dialog boxes from shell scripts. Curses based. Works in console mode' and is a Shell in the os & utilities category. There are more than 10 alternatives to dialog for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, Python and Qt apps. The best dialog alternative is Zenity, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like dialog are Glade, Yad, easybashgui and KDialog.
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10 likes21 Zenity alternativesZenity is a tool that allows you to display GTK dialog boxes in commandline and shell scripts.
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11 likes17 Glade alternativesGlade is a RAD (Rapid Application Development) tool to enable quick & easy development of user interfaces for the GTK+ toolkit.
DiscontinuedThe tool is not developed anymore as it cannot handle Gtk4.Instead Cambalache UI Maker is being developed but it still needs funding.
Glade VS dialog
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10 likes21 Yad alternativesYad (yet another dialog) is a fork of Zenity with many improvements, such as custom buttons, additional dialogs, pop-up menu in notification icon and more. It's useful for creating quick and easy GUIs for shell and batch scripting.
Yad VS dialog
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1 like21 easybashgui alternativesBash functions library for *BSD and GNU/Linux that aims to give simple GUI functions using yad, gtkdialog, kdialog, zenity, Xdialog, (c)dialog, whiptail or bash builtins depending on KDE or GNOME running or not, Yad/Gtkdialog/Xdialog installed or not and, eventually, X...
easybashgui VS dialog
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4 likes22 KDialog alternativeskdialog allows you to display dialog boxes from shell scripts. The syntax is very much inspired from the "dialog" command (which shows text mode dialogs).
KDialog VS dialog
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4 likes15 wxDev-C++ alternativeswxDev-C++ is an extension of Bloodshed Dev-C++ by Colin Laplace et. al. This program helps you to create dialogs and frames for wxWidgets visually using a form designer.
License model
- Free • Open Source
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Platforms
- Windows
- Bloodshed Dev-C++
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DiscontinuedThe project is no longer developed. Last version, 7.4.2, released in June 2012, can be still downloaded from the official website.
wxDev-C++ VS dialog
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3 likes18 wxGlade alternativeswxGlade is a GUI designer written in Python with the popular GUI toolkit wxPython, that helps you create wxWidgets/wxPython user interfaces. At the moment it can generate Python, C++, Perl, Lisp and XRC (wxWidgets' XML resources) code.
wxGlade VS dialog
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2 likes17 wxSmith alternativeswxSmith is a Code::Blocks plugin for RAD editing of wxWidgets applications.
wxSmith VS dialog
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Visualwx aims to be the ultimate RAD tool, designed for c++, python, perl, ruby, lua and wxWidgets. Still there are many things to do, but we've achieved considerable progress.
DiscontinuedLast version seems to be VisualWx 0.87.6.0 Alfa April 13 2007, see http://visualwx.altervista.org/downloads.php. There is no version for Python 3.
VisualWX VS dialog
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1 like15 MessagePop alternativesMessagePop is a simple application designed to help you convey a message to the computer user. The program allows you to specify the message text and the other parameters from the command line.
MessagePop VS dialog
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